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Family Trees
In the magical world of Harry Potter and his friends, family relationships are extremely important. Pure blood wizards can often trace their ancestors through the centuries.
The most familiar family tree is the Black tapestry that Sirius explains to Harry in the Order of the Phoenix, but there are other sites online that explore the complex intermarriages of other pure blood families.
Marriages to muggle borns, like James Potter and Lily Evans or Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger added new lines to many family trees, but may not have been recorded in some genealogies. The Weasleys are an exception to this. Muggle friendly, they warmly welcome those born with one or no magical parents into their family circle.
JKR has been playing around with the Weasley family tree with tantalizing thoughts of an eighth book of adventures. Instead of Harry Potter and friends, the heroes and villians would be their children... the next generation of young wizards at Hogwarts.
The constant addition of supporting materials published since the final battle shows that the draw of Hogwarts is still strong. She's said that if she does work on another Potter series book, it won't be for another ten years or so. Having spent seventeen years creating the first seven books, it's only fair that Jo have some time to spend on other personal adventures. But there's always hope that in time she'll miss the wonders of the magical world she's created as much as her fans do...
The unwritten story of Harry’s friends and their children - This London Times article features the Weasley family tree, which includes Harry and Hermione - through marriage - and all the children as well as all the Weasleys. JKR has hinted that if she does write an eighth book it will be about the next generation. This family tree, hand drawn by the author, may be one of the first steps in that process. Fingers crossed all Potter fans!
The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black - Excellent detailing of the Black family tree with excerpts from the books where Sirius explains some of the family connections to Harry.
Harry Potter Family Tree - This site may be called the Harry Potter Family Trees but it contains 180 individuals and 31 families. A very complete genealogy of the wizarding world.
Wizards
& Witches - Courtesy of the mighty Harry
Potter Lexicon including deep background and history of
major and minor characters with quick links to the most popular:
Harry,
Ron,
Hermione,
Dumbledore,
Hagrid,
Snape,
Voldermort,
Sirius
Black and lots more.
Yahoo!
Groups - Harry Potter Characters - At last count Draco
Malfoy led the pack with some 50 different groups devoted
to the little villain along with more message boards devoted
to major characters.
Scholastic
| Harry Potter Reference - The U.S. publisher of the
Harry Potter books featuring a neat, interactive tool with audio
files assisting in pronuniciations, plus check out a handy glossary
of Harry Potter words, spells and people.
also
see in Harry Potter -> Characters | Creatures
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